AXP vs. COF, DFS, CACC, SLM, NNI, ECPG, PRAA, WRLD, EZPW, and GDOT
Should you be buying American Express stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Express include Capital One Financial (COF), Discover Financial Services (DFS), Credit Acceptance (CACC), SLM (SLM), Nelnet (NNI), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), PRA Group (PRAA), World Acceptance (WRLD), EZCORP (EZPW), and Green Dot (GDOT). These companies are all part of the "consumer finance" industry.
Capital One Financial (NYSE:COF) and American Express (NYSE:AXP) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
89.8% of Capital One Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of American Express shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Capital One Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of American Express shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Capital One Financial currently has a consensus price target of $138.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.63%. American Express has a consensus price target of $215.00, suggesting a potential downside of 10.42%. Given American Express' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Capital One Financial is more favorable than American Express.
Capital One Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. American Express pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Capital One Financial pays out 18.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American Express pays out 23.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. American Express has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Capital One Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
American Express has a net margin of 14.50% compared to American Express' net margin of 10.19%. Capital One Financial's return on equity of 32.46% beat American Express' return on equity.
In the previous week, American Express had 8 more articles in the media than Capital One Financial. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for American Express and 10 mentions for Capital One Financial. Capital One Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat American Express' score of 0.68 indicating that American Express is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Capital One Financial has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Express has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Capital One Financial received 3 more outperform votes than American Express when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.84% of users gave Capital One Financial an outperform vote while only 60.40% of users gave American Express an outperform vote.
American Express has higher revenue and earnings than Capital One Financial. Capital One Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Express, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
American Express beats Capital One Financial on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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